Retail giant Walmart plans to launch a supply chain tracking\r\nsystem to encourage food safety standards in Southeast Asia. Walmart has announced a pilot to track shrimp imports from\r\nIndia to...
Retail giant Walmart plans to launch a supply chain tracking\r\nsystem to encourage food safety standards in Southeast Asia.
Walmart has announced a pilot to track shrimp imports from\r\nIndia to the USA using blockchain technology.
The retail giant plans to track shrimp imports between\r\nAndhra Pradesh, a gorgeous coastal region in India’s southeast, and U.S.-based\r\nretail warehouses, using blockchain technology developed by IBM. It will\r\nfeature “end-to-end traceability,” according to a press release issued Friday.
“The introduction of blockchain in the shrimp supply chain\r\ncould help improve the quality of information on the product for compliance\r\npurposes and for sharing with consumers, providing added traceability beginning\r\nat the farm and extending throughout the transportation process,” the company\r\nsaid.
The system will be available only to small-time farmers\r\nenrolled in Walmart’s membership-only retail warehouse chain Sam’s Club, whose\r\nfood-safety program requires compliance with international best aquaculture\r\npractices (BAP). Walmart will provide funding for smallholder farmers in Andhra\r\nPradesh to receive BAP training as part of the scheme.
“This end-to-end blockchain pilot is the first of its kind\r\nin India and has the potential to create long-term economic opportunity for the\r\nshrimp farming community in Andhra Pradesh, directly benefiting the farmers\r\nthrough new skills training and development,” said Chowdary Kunam, managing\r\ndirector of Indian seafood processor Sandhya Aqua. The processor is\r\nparticipating in the project alongside US-based supplier Stanley Pearlman Enterprises.
Walmart has been dabbling in blockchain for a while, working\r\nalongside the IBM\r\nFood Trust blockchain project since 2017. Its latest project is slated\r\nto run on IBM’s blockchain technology, which the retailer has previously used\r\nfor a system designed to track lettuce supply chains.
Separately, Walmart has attempted to patent a digital\r\ncurrency. The currency, which would be backed by a reserve of dollars, drew\r\ncomparisons to Facebook’s Libra project when it was revealed earlier this year.
In this latest project, let’s hope Walmart implements\r\nanti-monkfish-laundering provisions!
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